Melee Weapons

Melee weapons are the most reliable weapons in the game. These weapons range from your fists and feet to simple branches lying about in the wilderness to a customized bat with barbed wire wrapped around it.

To effectively use melee weapons, you must be able to approach your target unawares or charge them before they have time to react. When you find or purchase a melee weapon, you can have multiple copies of it. After enough bashing, it will break and you must replace it with another. Luckily, replacing them is extremely cheap, and most times easy.

If you enjoy using melee weapons, take the Takedown Mastery perk, as it allows you to throw melee weapons at nearby enemies after performing a takedown. Close Combat Mastery is another valuable perk, as it increases the durability and damage of melee weapons. The Close Combat Gear Bag lets you carry more melee weapons.

Fists

Feet

Branch

Hoe

Paddle

Shovel

Socket Pipe

Bolted Pipe

Baseball Bat

Aluminium Bat

Spiked Bat

Brass Knuckles

Whack!